Lance Cpl. David R. Hall

Lance Cpl. David R. Hall, 31, of Elyria, Ohio, died Aug. 31 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.  He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
 

Hall joined the Marines in November 2006 and was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from November 2007 to May 2008, according to the U.S. Marine Corps. He was promoted to the rank of lance corporal Jan. 1, 2008, and was deployed to Afghanistan in May 2009.

Hall was a rifleman assigned to Company G, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 3 of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade.A 1997 graduate of Southview High School, Hall worked at Ford's Lorain Assembly Plant before enlisting in November 2006.|
Three somber Marines stood in Lulu Hall's living room Monday. She knew what they had to tell her. But they kept silent. They said they must wait until her husband, Delmar, arrived. The 58-year-old mother asked them to sit. Politely, they declined. The next 45 minutes felt like an eternity. Finally, her husband arrived from his job at the Avon Lake Ford plant, and the Marines told her what she had known since she saw them approach her front porch. Her son, 31-year-old U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. David R. Hall, was killed Monday while serving in Afghanistan with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force. "One of his duties was to go ahead of his unit and use a detector to check for bombs," said his sister Lora Hall, 37, of Lorain. Hall had been on a foot patrol in Helmand province, where U.S. forces have been battling the Taliban, when he was killed by an improvised explosive device.

Yesterday, yellow ribbons and a bow tied with ribbon colored red, white and blue, hung outside the Lorain home of Hall's parents, Del and Lulu Hall.